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Transaction Error When Updating RedHat Enterprise (RHEL), Fedora or CentOS Linux

Summary: How to resolve a transaction Error When Updating RedHat Enterprise (RHEL), Fedora or CentOS Linux

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Symptoms

Cause

1. Transaction Error When Updating RedHat Enterprise (RHEL), Fedora or CentOS Linux

Some users may report a Transaction Error when trying to install updates on RedHat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, or CentOS. This error appears as a pop up box a couple of seconds after the update procedure times out.  

Resolution

2. Clear Transaction Error

To resolve this issue, change to super user (su). then run the following commands.
yum clean all
yum upgrade 

This should clear the transaction error and allow updates to install without issues. This fix may work on other Linux distributions using the yum package manager aside from the ones listed. 

Article Properties


Affected Product

PowerEdge, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 7

Last Published Date

20 Oct 2021

Version

5

Article Type

Solution